Mokoena obo Nkosi v Road Accident Fund (21415/2012) [2016] ZAGPPHC 195

15th April 2016

Mokoena obo Nkosi v Road Accident Fund (21415/2012) [2016] ZAGPPHC 195

Nokuthula Theodorah Dlamini was Siphamandla Menzi Nkosi’s mother.  She was involved in an accident on 23 February 2009 while she was a passenger in a motor vehicle that was driven by one S Ntshingila.  The taxi she was in with registration letters and numbers N[…] collided with the insured motor vehicle bearing registration letters and numbers X[…], at the time driven by one Shai.  Siphandla’s mother passed on four months after the accident.  Siphandla’s grandmother has, as a result, instituted an action on behalf of the minor child and in her personal capacity for loss of support which they received from the deceased.  Plaintiff contends that the collision was caused by the sole negligent driving of the insured driver alternatively of Ntshingila, alternately of both the insured driver and Ntshingila.